The Handbook of Restorative Justice: A Global Perspective (Routledge International Handbooks)

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The Handbook of Restorative Justice: A Global Perspective offers a unique collection of original, cutting-edge, and critical essays that describe the theory, principles, and culturally diverse practices of restorative justice around the globe. This much-awaited book is a response to the demand of students, scholars, and practitioners of restorative justice for a comprehensive and international overview about a field that is transforming criminal justice at its foundations.

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Although there is a plethora of studies on crime and punishment, law enforcement is a relatively new field of serious research. When courts, sentencing, prisons, jails, and other areas of the criminal justice system are studied, often the first point of entry into the system is through police and law enforcement agencies. Unfortunately, understanding of the important issues in law enforcement has little general literature to draw on. Currently available reference works on policing are narrowly focused and sorely out-of-date. To this end, a distinguished roster of authors, representing many years of knowledge and practice in the field, draw on the latest research and methods to delineate, describe, and analyze all areas of law enforcement.

This three-volume Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement provides a comprehensive, critical, and descriptive examination of all facets of law enforcement on the state and local, federal and national, and international stages. This work is a unique reference source that provides readers with informed discussions on the practice and theory of policing in an historical and contemporary framework. The volumes treat subjects that are particular to the area of state and local, federal and national, and international policing. Many of the themes and issues of policing cut across disciplinary borders, however, and several entries provide comparative information that places the subject in context.

Key Features
• Three volumes cover state and local, federal, and international law enforcement
• More than 250 contributors composed over 400 essays on all facets of law enforcement
• An editorial board made up of the leading scholars, researchers, and practitioners in the field of law enforcement
• Descriptions of United States Federal Agency law enforcement components
• Comprehensive and inclusive coverage, exploring concepts and social and legal patterns within the larger topical concern
• Global, multidisciplinary analysis

Key Themes
• Agencies, Associations, and Organizations
• Civilian/Private Involvement
• Communications
• Crime Statistics
• Culture/Media
• Drug Enforcement
• Federal Agencies/Organizations
• International
• Investigation, Techniques
• Types of Investigation
• Investigative Commissions
• Law and Justice
• Legislation/Legal Issues
• Military
• Minority Issues
• Personnel Issues
• Police Conduct
• Police Procedure
• Policing Strategies
• Safety and Security
• Specialized Law Enforcement Agencies
• Tactics
• Terrorism
• Victims/Witnesses

Editors
Marie Simonetti Rosen
Dorothy Moses Schulz
M. R. Haberfeld
John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Editorial Board
Geoffrey Alpert, University of South Carolina
Thomas Feltes, University of Applied Police Sciences, Spaichingen, Germany
Lorie A. Fridell, Police Executive Research Forum, Washington, DC
James J. Fyfe, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
David T. Johnson, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Peter K. Manning, Northeastern University
Stephen D. Mastrofski, George Mason University
Rob Mawby, University of Plymouth, U.K.
Mark Moore, Harvard University
Maurice Punch, London School of Economics, U.K.
Wesley G. Skogan, Northwestern University

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A special recommendation for college collections strong in criminal justice.......2006-04-28

The weighty 3-volume ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LAW ENFORCEMENT isn't for the general lending collection but is a special and ongoing recommendation for the college collection with courses strong in criminal justice. Each volume is divided by law area: V. 1 covers State and Local, V. 2 is Federal and V. 3 is international. The thematic divisions offers a fine focus on different types of policing, with entries on the law enforcement system and process covering laws, areas of enforcement, legal history and more. From entries on international terrorism to drunk driving, over three hundred contributors of scholars, researchers and practitioners in different areas of law enforcement provide a reference packed with material essential for understanding the system: agencies and organizations, investigation techniques, military issues, conduct and ethical questions and much more, from the general to the specialized topic. An outstanding library reference.

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Ridiculous and unbelievable--I'd give it minus 5 stars if possible

Sullivan's Justice (Carolyn Sullivan)
Nancy Taylor Rosenberg
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Another routine Rosenberg thriller.......2007-05-14

Sullivan's Justice is Nancy Taylor Rosenberg's second novel featuring probation officer Carolyn
Sullivan, and it is on a par with its predecessor: it is neither good nor bad but just average. The happy medium may have been okay for Goldilocks and the porridge, but in writing, it is a bit of a letdown.

In this story, Sullivan is assigned to do a sentencing recommendation for Raphael Moreno, who has been convicted of multiple murders including his own mother and sister. Moreno is a nasty character who seemingly has no qualms about using excessive violence. Meanwhile, Carolyn's brother Neil is accused of murdering his girlfriend; his alibi, however, is that he was with another woman, the sociopathic Melody. While some very incriminating evidence does point to him, other clues points to Melody and still other ones points to a serial killer.

As in the previous book, woe upon woe piles upon Carolyn. Besides the issues with her brother and with Moreno, she is snowed under at work, her relationship with her lover Paul is endangered by Melody and she finds out a shocking revelation about her own father.

Rosenberg writes well enough to keep the reader entertained, but the healthy amount of suspense is not enough to hide this books flaws, the biggest of which are reliance on coincidence. Not only is it coincidence that the crime Neil is accused of would be linked to Carolyn's big sentencing case, it is a stretch beyond plausibility that Neil's current girlfriend would also be an ex-lover of Paul.

With a better writer, these sorts of problems may be overcome (then again, a better writer would probably not have these problems), but Rosenberg isn't that gifted. Superficially, she seems okay - that is, she seems to know how to construct this sort of book - but at least this book (and its predecessor) lack any real oomph. I suppose there is virtue in reading an average, three-star sort of book, in that it makes you appreciate the good stuff even more, but I cannot really recommend Rosenberg when there are a lot of better books out there.

Excellent Reading, .......2006-08-07

Very good author & have read all her prior books before the "Sullivan" ones.

Great stay up at night and read book..........2006-06-29

Found this book at the store by chance... sat on the bookshelf and few friends borrowed. All of them returned it and said; "you've got to read this book, WOW" After reading a somewhat boring book I picked it up and have thought of nothing else. From the first page until the end it sunk it's teeth into me and made me ponder the who's dunnit and what if? I'm heading out to buy the other books she has written and anxiously await sitting on the dock and reading! This is a great first read book to get sucked into Nancy Taylor Rosenberg's writing and mystique!

Reviews by Nan Kilar and Bobby Miller.......2006-06-11

Carolyn Sullivan is a probation officer for Ventura County. Her artist brother, Neil, is suspected in the murder of his girlfriend and another woman. Neil was with Melody Asher, a spoiled heiress who has perfected the art of lying, when his girlfriend was murdered, but Melody won't provide his alibi.

Work wise, Carolyn is trying to crack Raphael Moreno, a truly gruesome killer. As the story unfolds it turns out Raphael and the new killings are connected all because of a Ferrari.

There are so many subplots - Carolyn's love life; a revelation about Carolyn's father's death; the plutonium; Melody's dad and their relationship; etc. etc. - that it's all just a little much...even for fiction.

Ridiculous and unbelievable--I'd give it minus 5 stars if possible.......2005-08-14

Awful, awful, awful. Poor writing, an absurd plot, and too many imbecilic characters populate this poor excuse for a thriller. Again and again the characters do things that are unbelievable. Here's an example: After receiving a video of her boyfriend having sex with Melody and learning that Melody (who isn't really "Melody" but a sociopathic liar named Jessica whose story is as stupid as the rest of the book) might be the killer, Carolyn, our intelligence-challenged heroine, goes rushing over to confront Melody. After an inane conversation Carolyn sees that Melody is wearing the same watch that she (Carolyn) received for Christmas from said boyfriend. This helps Carolyn decide that Melody is not a threat. The finale is absolutely ludicrous. Don't waste your time on this.

Pinstripes & Pearls: The Women of the Harvard Law Class of '64 Who Forged an Old Girl Network and Paved the Way for Future Generations

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Pinstripes & Pearls: The Women of the Harvard Law Class of '64 Who Forged an Old Girl Network and Paved the Way for Future Generations
Judith Richards Hope
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Release Date: 2003-01-07

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"[W]e didn't fully understand what we were getting into -- what obstacles we would encounter, what trails we would blaze....We just knew, from an early age, that we wanted both to serve our country, help make our world a little better and a little safer -- just like our fathers and our brothers -- and to marry; rear honest, happy children; and lead fulfilling personal lives -- just like our mothers."

-- from the Introduction

To illustrate the challenges facing women of her generation, author Judith Richards Hope describes the lives and careers of a handful of barrier-breaking women, including herself, from Harvard Law School's pivotal class of 1964, who fought and overcame preconceptions and prejudices against their entering what, at the time, was a male vocation. Despite their struggles in law school and in the workplace, they maintained their ambition and ultimately achieved remarkable success. They look back on law school as a time of enormous personal and intellectual growth.

In 1961, before modern civil rights legislation and women's liberation, women were generally regarded as undesirable candidates for law studies. Most law firms believed that women couldn't keep up the pace, that they couldn't avoid emotional outbursts, and that their place was in the home. Nonetheless, 48 women applied to Harvard Law that year, 22 were accepted, and 15 graduated in a class of 513. The rigorous training at Harvard Law taught these women to survive and to thrive in one of the toughest, most competitive professions in the country. It took grit, confidence, resourcefulness, thick skins, and a certain irreverence for them to succeed. These qualities propelled Judith Richards Hope and her classmates into some of the most prominent careers of their generation, yet they did not sacrifice their more traditional female roles. Their achievements have helped pave the way for women of subsequent generations.

Pinstripes & Pearls illuminates the extraordinary trajectories of these women -- among them Pat Schroeder, Judith W. Rogers, and Hope herself -- who forged an old-girl network and became lifelong friends. Through compelling and often witty anecdotes, unprecedented archival research of Harvard records, and revealing testaments to the difficulties faced by women harboring serious career goals, Pinstripes & Pearls personifies in these women the emergence of a new type of American female, one whose "goal is to reach the destination, not just to avoid humiliation on the way."

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Not Perfect, but it's a Great Read.......2007-07-08

As someone who will start law school in the fall, I was interested in Judith Richard Hope's Pinstripes and Pearls as much for the perspective on the law school experience as for the historical perspective on being in one of the first Harvard Law School classes with women. The book is at its best when it describes the appalling way the women were sometimes treated, both in law school, and as they entered the work force, and how they banded together to survive in the legal profession. It's a little weaker when it strays from that central storyline, however it's still a good read.

Hope documents her experience, and that of her 19 female classmates, as they entered Harvard Law School in the fall of 1961, in a class of 513 students. The book begins by providing an outline of the history of women at Harvard Law School. I was surprised to learn that Harvard was one of the last law schools to admit women, not opening their doors to them until 1950 (the reasons for the decision included the fact that turning a men's bathroom into a women's one would be extremely expensive). Hope provides some brief information about the childhoods and families of most of her female colleagues, before starting the story in earnest with registration day, where most of them meet.

From there, the story reads somewhat like an extreme version of Scott Turow's 1L, documenting the first year law school experience, along with all the added comments, criticism, and harassment the women must endure from plenty of male professors and fellow students. Amongst the many incidents described are a dinner party for the women held by a Dean; after dinner he asked all of them "Why are you at Harvard Law School, taking the place of a man?", and a class with a professor who would only call on female students on designated "Ladies' Days", humiliating them for the entertainment of the men.

The heroines of the novel are clearly all brilliant, determined women who survived by sticking together, and getting advice and support from each other and older female law students. Together they formed the "old-girls network" of the title, their answer to the "old boys network" that dominated the legal profession at the time (and to some extent still does). 15 of the 20 graduate with the class in 1964, and all but one ultimately graduate from a law school. Although it was very difficult at that time for women to find work in the legal profession ("How well can you type?" and "Will you tell your husband about this position?" are some of the questions the women get asked on interviews) the women help each other out once again, and most ultimately end up finding work as lawyers, with several rising to high powered political positions or becoming judges.

The book falters a bit when it tries to explore the age-old question of whether or not a women can really "do it all", having both a successful career and a family. It's a complex question that has no easy answer, and although Hope seems to be holding up many of her heroines as women who do indeed have it all, the stories she tells suggest otherwise. Many of the women have failed marriages or struggle with depression, and even those who are seemingly happy on the outside do not have the idyllic family life they may appear to. The author herself includes comments from her children that suggest that while she succeeded wonderfully as a female lawyer in a man's world, she failed as a mother. I felt that the stories of the women's personal disappointments, while an important part of their individual lives, detracted from the book about a group of trailblazing women who changed the face of the legal profession.

Also, while I am not attempting to condemn Hope for her desire to climb the private practice ranks, which often entails representing despicable clients, I was somewhat disappointed that the book included almost no mention of the moral issues involved, or her reasons for choosing to work in a firm that represented the Mob when her self-proclaimed reason for going to law school was to "to fight for what was fair and right".

Overall, however, Hope is an excellent writer, the prose is lively and engaging, and the stories she tells so interesting, that I found the book hard to put down; I read it all in one afternoon. The tone is a bit self-aggrandizing at times, but it's clear that Hope and her female classmates have earned the right to brag; not only did they graduate from one of the toughest law schools in the country, they bravely broke down barriers, and as the title suggests "paved the way for future generations".

An Exceptionally Beautiful, Moving and Interesting Book.......2003-08-13

Before commenting on this book, let me mention that I am a graduate of Harvard Law School in 1971. By then, women were about 10 percent of the class, and some of the problems described in this book had been overcome. But many had not. Since then, I have had the pleasure of attending many of the special celebrations on the anniversaries of the admission of women to the school on September 1950. But in those gatherings, I have heard few stories as moving as the ones in this book.

This book moved me even more than the fine memoir, One-L, that has become a classic concerning legal education.

Ms. Judith Richards Hope is one of the most successful graduates of Harvard Law School in the last 40 years. Many in her situation would have chosen to write a memoir, basically recounting how she did so well. I admire her for choosing to write the story of all the 20 women in her class (1964) and also including the remarkable Elizabeth Dole who worked in the library during that class's first year before deciding to apply and join the class of 1965.

The book begins with the history of why women had been excluded from Harvard Law School. Mostly it's nonsense about not being sure of the intellectual capacity of women, not wanting to keep a man from practicing law who might stick with it for more years than a women, concern about whether law firms would hire women, and the cost of putting in women's bathrooms. It's not a pretty story, but that's all history now. Women saw, they came, and they persevered and prospered.

If you are like me, you'll enjoy hearing about the family backgrounds that encouraged these women to enter what was a challenging and hostile educational environment. The silliness at the school will alternately amuse and annoy you. There weren't enough bath rooms. Some professors chose to have Ladies Days when they would call on women, and ignore them otherwise. Well-intentioned efforts often backfired and made the women feel uncomfortable . . . such as when Dean Griswold had everyone over for dinner at his home.

The law firm silliness was even worse. It was impressive how the women got around that. Ms. Hope's negotiating strategy with Edward Bennett Williams was remarkable.

Then, trying to be a perfect mom and a great lawyer created even more silliness . . . and lots of fatigue. But they did it. It's great!!!

I know many of the people described in the book, and I thought that they were characterized accurately with one exception. Eleanor Appel of the Placement Office comes in for a lot of criticism for not trying to make law firms change their prejudiced ways. What the book does not make clear is that Ms. Appel was not a lawyer. She was a Radcliffe graduate. With no one in the faculty to back her in forcing recruiters to change, all she could have accomplished was getting herself fired by trying to make recruiters change. I personally overheard many conversations she had where she argued effectively the case that women and minorities should receive better treatment, and observed the white male lawyers then go on to ignore her arguments. If there is a fault, it is with the faculty. They had the bully pulpit to do more, but did not.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to understand how women get to be tops in the legal profession. I even more highly recommend it as a story of human struggle and success.

These are remarkable people, and they have already made our world a better one for their willingness to run the gauntlet in the legal profession. Thank you, women of the class of 1964!

Where else are people being excluded from opportunities? What can you do to change that?

This book is amazing!.......2003-07-02

If you are a woman who struggles to balance career aspirations with a dedication to domestic ideals this is a must-read book. In an honest and compassionate manner Hope details the lives of the women in her class. These are women who listened to their intellectual hearts despite society's pressure to hold them back. I am inspired!

A Great Anecdotal History.......2003-05-04

As someone who was born after Ms. Hope entered law school at Harvard, this personal history of the struggles against the overt and covert discrimination women faced in the '60's is an eye opener. I can't imagine dealing with the unabashed sexism that Ms. Hope and her contemporaries encountered, yet here it is, detailed in anecdote after anecdote.

The book is a series of personal histories that enlighten all of us about the struggles women and men alike went through to get to the precarious balance of sexual politics that we live in today. In the telling, Ms. Hope illuminates the conflicts that women experience to this day while trying to balance work and family. One of the most painful passages of the book reveals Ms. Hope's own children's ambivalence about her accomplishments as a lawyer, mother and woman.

This book is not just an opportunity for 60-something lawyers to reminisce about their salad days. It's important for my contemporaries of both genders to understand the stories of the 1960's were much more than "flower power" hippies protesting Vietnam or sitting around taking drugs and listening to the Beatles. We can do no worse than starting with this book that tells the stories of a small group of women's experiences at Harvard Law School in the early '60's and their struggles to balance careers and family in the turbulent years that followed. Also, if you can read this book and not regret the lost potential of Pat Schroeder's aborted presidential campaign, you're a stronger person than I.

Read This Book!.......2003-03-20

Pinstripes and Pearls made for a very late evening -- I couldn't bring myself to put it down to go to sleep.

I found myself cheering for the author and all of her classmates as they struggled through life, law school, relationships, and their legal careers -- and laughing out loud at some of the humorous twists in their lives.

Mostly, though, the book made me feel like I could conquer the world someday. I realized that whatever difficulties I and my peers are now facing as new women attorneys have been confronted -- and triumphantly surmounted -- by the very successful author and her impressive classmates. I marveled at the fact that prior to reading the book, I assumed that each of the story's protagonists had achieved their goals so effortlessly. It was refreshing to know that it was difficult for these prominent women too, but that they all got through it all in the end with grit, fierce determination, and love.

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For decades, debate has raged over whether the military justice system is foremost a tool to preserve discipline within the armed forces or a means of dispensing justice on a par with civilian criminal justice systems. From the dawn of American military law in 1775 through World War II, the answer was obvious: military justice was primarily a tool commanders used to maintain discipline. In 1950, however, Congress enacted the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Through amendments over the past half century, the American military justice system has evolved into what it is today: not quite a mirror image of the civilian federal criminal justice system, but vastly more fair than in the days of drumhead courts and the lash, according to the authors, both practicing attorneys and former military officers.

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This bold, uncompromising essay offers a dual challenge to anyone interested in issues of justice. First, it poses a radical critique of current criminal justice practices in favor of a restorative justice alternative. Then, it advocates a fundamental reformulation of the thinking and practices of restorative justice itself.

Restorative justice is a growing movement that strives to achieve reconciliation between crime victims and the persons who have harmed them through the use of various forms of mediation and nonviolent conflict resolution. Many programs embodying this approach have been launched in North America, Europe and Australasia. The authors call for two sweeping revisions in restorative justice thinking: (1)replacing justice practices based on rights and "deserts" with approaches that seek to meet the needs of all -- including the harm-doer and the community, as well as those directly affected by a harm; and (2) applying these principles beyond the justice system to a broad range of social institutions, including families, schools, workplaces and neighborhoods.

The book offers many concrete examples of the type of need-based restorative justice that is being proposed.

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Restorative Justice: Healing the Foundations of Our Everyday Life, 2nd Edition
Dennis Sullivan , and Larry Tifft
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This passionate, impeccably researched essay advocates a radical alternative to the punishment reflex of the criminal justice system -- a "needs-based" model of restorative justice. Instead of defining justice in relation to peoples' "rights" or "deserts," the needs-based model strives to respond to the NEEDS of all participants. Beyond the legal system, the authors would apply this distinctive restorative justice model to conflict resolution in families, schools, workplaces, neighborhoods and other institutions.

The second edition of this well received book (which is more than 50% longer) features a comprehensive survey of the international restorative justice literatuve and a wealth of real-world applications of needs-based restorative justice. The well-documented case studies range worldwide and include: family/community conferences; sentencing circles; victim-offender mediation programs; an "inclusion" elementary school; post-civil conflict "truth commissions" in two dozen nations; and indigenous reconciliation courts in Rwanda; among many others.

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Sullivan's Justice
Nancy Taylor Rosenberg , and Sandra Burr
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